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Preface
ZW3D CAD/CAM is the one of the first all-in-one CAD/CAM software, which provides the seamless integration
between CAD and CAM by sharing the same database. With the advantage of the Intellectual priority Over-drive
kernel developed by ZWSOFT, besides solid modeling and surface modeling, ZW3D is able to provide the hybrid
solid-surface modeling, which provides great flexibilities in modeling. Typically, ZW3D is able to use the same
command for solid or surface features. With the power of the built-in CAM, ZW3D is able to provide 2~5X
manufacturing solution, besides simple work flow of CAM, huge potential can be explored, including rest material
milling, tool path editor, etc.
This manual covers sketch design, solid modeling, 2D sheet, wireframe and surface modeling, as well as assembly
design. And it focuseson showing the detailed features through typical examples.
Chapter 1 introduces the work flow of the sketching, which covers sketch and constraints.
Chapter 2 introduces the shape modeling through a simple example.
Chapter 3 introduces the 2D documentations.
Chapter 4 introduces the wireframe creation and surface modeling through a few typical cases, which starts to
draw from wireframe and then generate to surfaces. Furthermore, it introduces a few unique morphing features
of ZW3D.
Chapter 5 covers the whole assembly procedure, including alignment of components, management of component,
as well as explosive view.
Milestone of ZW3D
• 1986, One of the first commercial pc-based solid modeler
• 1999, The first version of Hybrid modeling product was released
• 2002, Named Golden product by NASA
• 2012, ZW3D achieved up-to 10 times faster graphic performance
• 2014, The 18th release of ZW3D is available with faster CAD and greater CAM
Contents:
1. Sketch Design ........................................................................................................................................................................ 1

1.1 Create a new sketch ..................................................................................................................................................... 1
1.2 Draw sketch: ................................................................................................................................................................ 5
1.3 Show the constraint status ........................................................................................................................................ 29
1.4 Add constraint ........................................................................................................................................................... 30
2. Shape ................................................................................................................................................................................... 36
2.1 Pipe connector ........................................................................................................................................................... 36
3. 2D Sheet ............................................................................................................................................................................ 101
3.1 Create sketch of the shaft ........................................................................................................................................ 102
3.2 Create shaft shape ................................................................................................................................................... 107
3.3 Create 2D sheet ....................................................................................................................................................... 116
4. Wireframe & Surface design.............................................................................................................................................. 143
4.1 Case 1: Cable design ................................................................................................................................................ 144
4.2 Case 2: Cable design 2 ............................................................................................................................................. 154
4.3 Case 3: Spring design ............................................................................................................................................... 174
4.4 Case 4: Spoon design ............................................................................................................................................... 186
5. Assembly Design ................................................................................................................................................................ 214
5.1 Insert components ................................................................................................................................................... 215
5.2 Fix the left side frame .............................................................................................................................................. 218
5.3 Add constraint ......................................................................................................................................................... 219
5.4 Copy link by moving................................................................................................................................................. 226
5.5 Align the copied link ................................................................................................................................................ 227
5.6 Check the constraint status ..................................................................................................................................... 231
5.7 Drag the handle ....................................................................................................................................................... 231
5.8 Check the interference ............................................................................................................................................ 233
5.9 Correct the position of handle as follows: ............................................................................................................... 233
5.10 Create a 2D sheet based on this assembly as follows............................................................................................ 234
5.10 Create an exploded view ....................................................................................................................................... 237
Chapter 01
1. Sketch Design
In thisChapter you will learn
 How to use the drawing tool
 How to add constraint
 How to edit sketch
 How to analyze the sketch’s constraint status
1.1 Create a new sketch

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Create standalone sketch.
In Part level create sketch as follows.
After you confirm it, ZW3D will automatically switch into sketch level.
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Every time when you create a new sketch you will get the following dialog box in part level:
Please try to create a new sketch file and then let’s take a look at the sketch’s interface as follows:
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1.1.1 Sketch Tool :
1.1.2 Constraint:
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1.1.3 Inquire:
1.1.4 Document aware Tool bar:
1.2 Draw sketch:
1.2.1 Create a datum circle at original point (0,0) as follows.

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1.2.2 Convert it into constructive line.
1.2.3 Create datum lines.
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Repeat to create another datum line.
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Note: Afterwards remember to convert them into constructive line.
1.2.4 Add angle dimension to them as follows.
Repeat to dimension another datum line, and then turn on the constraint status icon as follows.
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1.2.5 Anchor the datum lines.
Before going to anchor the lines we should first convert the dimension into reference dimension otherwise it will be
over constrained as follows.
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Go to anchor the 2 lines by anchoring their end points as follows.
1.2.6 Create 2 datum points as follows.

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So far we already finished the datum geometries for this sketch. Then hide the dimensions.
Next let’s go to create sketch based on these datum geometries.
1.2.7 Create the circles at the original point and the datum points as follows.
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1.2.8 Offset the datum circle to create 2 circles as follows.
Then repeat offsetting the datum circle to create another circle as follows.
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1.2.9 Hide the datum circle.
1.2.10 Trim : Power trim + One touch Trim.
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◆ Note: When you use Power Trim, please hold your left mouse button and then move the cursor
over the geometry which you want to trim.
Trim again by One Touch Trim command as follows:
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After trimmed:
Note: When picking different position to trim you may get different point coincident constraint, don’t need to care about it
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in this step since after finish this sketch, we can quickly add them.
1.2.11 Create 2 vertical lines as follows.
1.2.12 Dimension the line in the left side as follows.
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1.2.13 Fillet the line and the arc in left side as follows.
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Keep on filleting corner between the line and the bottom circle as follows.
1.2.14 Add tangent constraint to the line in the right side and the arc as follows.
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1.2.15 Trim the arc and the line to following result.
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1.2.16 Create a slot and dimension it
Create slot as follows
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Dimension the center points.
Repeat to finish all of the dimensions as follows.
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1.2.17 Offset.
And add dimension the offset distance as follows.

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Afterwards hide the dimensions and constraints.
1.2.18 Fillet the corner between the offset line and the vertical line as follows.
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1.2.19 Create a circle at the slot’s left center point as follows.
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1.2.20 Create a horizontal line and then make it tangent to the new created circle in step 10.
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And then trim them as follows.
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1.2.21 Add a fillet close the sketch as follows.
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1.3 Show the constraint status
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Note:
1.4 Add constraint
From the analysis result you can find most of the connecting positions lack coincident constraint.Point to line/curve
constraint as follows.
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There are too many positions so that it is not easy to add one by one. So next we will go to use the auto constraint to help
finish itquickly.
1.4.1 Click right mouse on the blank area and choose Auto constraint as follows.
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Then add constraint as follows:
1.4.2 After confirming,continue to add the Point to line constraint as follows.
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Afterwards you can get the following result:
1.4.3 Add more constraint to the under defined geometry:

Add parallel constraint to lines as follows.
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Add tangent constraint for the circle and line as follows.
Finally you will get a completed sketch with full constrained as follows.
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When you get this result, it means that you have finished the example. Congratulation!
Excise: please finish attached sketch excise.
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Chapter 02
2. Shape
In this chapter you will learn
 How to use Shape commands like Block, Extrude, Revolve etc.

 How to use the Engineering Feature like Fillet, Draft, Hole etc.
 How to edit the shape by Combine, mirror etc.
 How to create 3D section view
◆ Note: Before you start this practice you should finish the sketch practice and have an idea about
how to use sketch.
2.1 Pipe connector

Shape Chapter 2
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This shape is symmetric about the YZ and XZ, so we can first finish a quarter of it as follows.
First let’s take a look at the CAD design interface as follows.
Then let’s go to take a look at the Shape tools as follows.
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Next let’s go to create the shape.
2.1.1 Create a block as follows.
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2.1.2 Create a sketch on the top face of the block as follows.
Sketch is as follows:
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2.1.3 Extrude the sketch.
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2.1.4 Create the 2nd sketch on the side face as follows.
Sketch:
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2.1.5 Extrude this sketch as follows.
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2.1.6 Create the 3rd sketch as follows.
Create the reference line as follows.
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Create the sketch and constrain it.
Mirror about the center line as follow.
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Constrain the end point of the mirrored line as

follows.
Connect the end point of the arc by line as follows.
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2.1.7 Extrude the 3rd sketch as follows.
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2.1.8 Add draft angle.
Add draft angle to the side face of the base as follows.
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Add draft angle to the cylinder face as follows.
Keep on adding draft angle as follows.
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2.1.9 Add fillet to the edges as follows.
Add fillet to these edges as follows.
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Fillet on edges with radius of 5(R5).
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Fillet the top edge.
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2.1.10 Create hole feature.
Hole on the side face.
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Counter-Bore hole on bottom:
i) Create a sketch point on XY plane for hole’s location.
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ii) Create a Counter-Bore hole at this point as follows.
Result:
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2.1.11 Mirror it as follows.
Mirror about YZ plane.
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Mirror about XZ plane.
Result:
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2.1.12 Set up the shapes’ attribute.
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2.1.13 Revolve 2 shapes for cutting the inner pockets as follows.
Create 2 sketches in XY plane as follows.
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Another sketch is as follows:
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Revolve the first sketch.
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Result:
Revolve another one.
Result:
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2.1.14 Combine the 2 revolved shapes into one.
Result:
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2.1.15 Create inner pocket by subtracting the new combined shape as follows.
Afterwards we can get the following result:
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2.1.16 Hide some of them to show the interior details.
Result:
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2.1.17 Create 3D section view.
Un-blank all of the shapes.
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Combine all of them(Integrate them into one).
Result:
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Create 3D section view: There are 4 section types.Next we are going to create 4 section views based on the 4
types.
 The first type: Section at plane (for the complete details please refer to the help menu).
 The second type: Section with slice.
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 Third type:Section with envelope.
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Changed each section plane’s placement by modifying the value and then you can get a section view as follows.
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 The forth type: Section with profile.
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Pick XY plane to locate the sketch as follows.
Create section view based on this sketch (Sketch must be closed).
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Confirm it and you will get the following result:
Then click on the section command again.
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After creating the intersect curves, click on the insert view icon, and then you will get the following result:
Confirm it and go to view manager and then you will get the following result:
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Go back to the section defining form.
Confirm it again to exit the section view definition.
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And then show the user defined view with section view as follows.
Then go to hide all of the intersect curves as follows.

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And then change the display mode into shape.
2.1.18 Create 2D sheet based on the shape.
Right click on the blank area to pop up the context menu and choose 2D sheet as follows.
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After confirming you will enter into the 2D sheet’s environment as follows.Then you can create the first standard
view.
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◆ Note: You can also create the standard view by clicking the Standard icon on the Ribbon tool bar
manually to create the same view as follows.
After creating the front view, if you pick one point to locate it, ZW3D will automatically switch to create the
projection view based on the first standard view, and then you can move the cursor to choose which view to
create. Here let’s move cursor to bottom then you should get the bottom view as follows:
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◆ Note: Don’t confirm or exist the command at this moment, since ZW3D allows you to keep on going.
Create the section view based on the bottom view as follows.
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Afterwards you should get the following result:
After finishing these views, you can obviously find that the size of sheet does not fit the view’s size, therefore it is
necessary to change the size of the sheet.Let’s do it as follows.
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Afterwards you can get a bigger size sheet as follows.
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Move the views: position of each view in the bigger size sheet should be relocated as follows.
Move the bottom view and section view separately.

i) Move bottom view.
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ii) Move section view.
Add center mark for cylinder feature and hole feature following the below steps.
i) Hide all of the tangent line such as the fillet’s boundaries as follows.
Then you can get the following result:
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ii) Add the center mark for the arcs in the front view and bottom view.
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After finishing this step you will get this result:
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iii) Create the center line for the section view.
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After adding the center line, extend it in both sides as follows.
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Add again to finish adding center line as follows.
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◆ Note: You also can automatically to generate the center line by clicking the button “Show center
line “in the View attributes form as follows.
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Add dimensions.
i) Add basic dimension to this drawing such as the length, width, height, and corner radius as follows.
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ii) And then add some user defined dimensions for some fillet feature and hole features for the bottomview.
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Dimension holes by hole callout.
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Afterwards adjust the position of the hole callout and then double click on the callout to edit the content of it as
follows.
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Confirm it, and then you can get the final result as follows:
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So far this example has been finished.

Congratulation!
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Chapter 03
3. 2D Sheet
 How to create standard 2D view and section view in 2D sheet

 How to add dimension, annotation and symbol to 2D drawing
2D Sheet Chapter 3
3.1 Create sketch of the shaft
3.1.1 Create sketch and add dimension and constraint as follows.
Constrain the end points as follows.
3.1.2 Mirror the created sketch.
Hide dimensions and constraints.
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Mirror by X axis.
Pick all of the geometries in the graphic area, and then click your right mouse button, choose the mirror command
from the context menu to mirror it as follows.
Convert the mirrored drawing into constructive line.
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Add dimensions as follows.
Afterwards hide all of the dimensions and constraints.
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Check the constraint status to see if it has been full constrained by show constraint status icon.
Constrain the link to the arm and Handle as follows.
i) First add Vertical constraint to them as follows.
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ii) And then add “Point horizontal” to the 2 lines as follows.
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Keep on going.
So far you have finished the sketch for the shaft, exit the sketch.
3.2 Create shaft shape
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3.2.1 Revolve a shape with the sketch as
follows.
3.2.2 Chamfer at both end with the setback of 3 mm.
3.2.3 Create the key slot at both sides.
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Create slot’s sketch on XY plane as follows.
Extrude to cut the slot shape as follows.
The 2 slots have different depths, so first choose the sketch in the left side to create the left slot as follows.
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Result should be as follows:
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In the same method,create the slot in the right side, extrude parameters as follows.
Result:
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3.2.4 Create Center hole, thread hole on both end faces.
Create a center hole on left end face as follows.
Create 2 thread holes on the same face.
At first create a sketch on the face and then create 2 points with the following dimension.
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Afterwards exit sketch and choose hole command again to create 2 Holes as follows.
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Result on the left side end face:
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Create a same center hole at another side in the same method as follows.
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3.3 Create 2D sheet
Right click on graphic area –Choose 2D sheet –choose Template or blank sheet as follows.
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3.3.1 After shifting into 2D sheet level, create a Top view with the following setting.
The Show dimension from part option has been activated, so you can automatically get these dimensions. But it is
disordered.
3.3.2 Clean-up dimension: go to the Edit menu and choose Dimension option, pick the Clean-up Dimension’s
location command.
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And then choose the Top view as input.
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Result:
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3.3.3 Change dimension from part: Right click on the dimension which you want to edit and pick the Modify Part
Dimension option to change the part’s dimension as follows.
Then you will get the following dialog box which allows you to change the dimensions value.
After finishing it, you will get the result as follows:
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And then exit 2D sheet, Right click on the sketch feature in the history manager and pick Show Dimension to show
the feature’s dimension as follow.
From the result you can find the modification in 2D sheet has reflected the 3D model.
Go back to the 2D sheet again.
3.3.4 Change the dimension’s attribute.
Go to Tool tap pick Style Manager and change the dimension’s text as follows.
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Then you will make the dimension as follows.It looks better.
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Add tolerance to some key dimensions.
Right click on one of the shaft’s diameter dimensions which need to be added tolerance and pick the Attribute
option to add as follows.
Add up and bottom tolerance as follows.
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Add dimension symbol to it.
 Method 1: Right click on Dimension—choose “Modify Text” as follows.
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Add annotation in the modify text form as follows.
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After clicking OK button, you will get one more variable at the Text option as follows.
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Confirm it, and then you can get the result as follows:
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 Method 2: use the Dim Tool as follows.

Right click on ribbon’s blank area—choose Tool Bars—Dim Tool.
How to use Dim Tool:
i) First click on the symbol you want to add for example the diameter symbol.
ii) Then pick the dimension which you want to add this symbol to.
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Afterwards, you can add dimension symbol for other dimensions according to the following drawing.
Add annotation to it such as “feature control”, “Datum feature”, “Surface finish” etc.
i) Add the Datum feature as follows.
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ii) Add Feature control symbol.
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The finished result is as follows:
iii) Keep on adding feature control symbol at other position as follows.
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Result:
iv) Add surface finish symbol as follows.
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After finishingthis, keep on adding the surface finish symbol at other positions as follows.
Create other views to display more details.
i) First create Left View of the part by Standard view command as follows.
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ii) After creating the left view, dimension the thread holes on it as follows.
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Keep on adding dimension for the rest holes and linear dimension as follow.
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iii) Create the section view for the key slot.
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You should get this result:
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Dimension the Slot: use the linear dimension and add tolerance in different types as follows.
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And then add the surface finish symbol to it.Finally you will get the following result:
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And then use the same way to finish another section view and adding the dimensions and surface finish symbol as
follows.
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Finally you should get the completed 2D sheet of the shaft as follows.
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So far you have finished the drawing for the shaft.

Congratulation! You have finished this chapter!
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Chapter 04
4. Wireframe & Surface design
In this chapter you will learn how to use the wireframe tools to build the frame for shape and surface.
First let’s take a look at the wireframe’s tools as follows:
And then we will learn how to use wireframe’s tool to design through 4cases.
Wireframe & Surface design Chapter 4
4.1 Case 1: Cable design
In this case you will learn
 How to use wireframe ‘s tool to create 3D curves
 Some tips for sweep command
 How to use blend curve
 How to use Rod command
Next let’s go to design it:
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4.1.1 Create a circle with the wireframe’s circle command as follows.
◆ Note: The wireframe tools like drawing tools are almost the same as those in sketch, but what need
to pay attention to is the location. The plane which you want to put ondrawingshould be assigned.
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4.1.2 Create line with line command in wireframe.
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4.1.3 Sweep the line along the circle.
You could get the following result:
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4.1.4 Create the curve by edge.
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After this command you will get the following result:
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4.1.5 Create a blend curve to connect the broken area as follows.
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4.1.6 Create the shape of Cable.
Afterwards you will get the following result:
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4.1.7 Go to choose Rob command in the Shape module to create the cable as follows.
Finally you can get the following result:
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4.2 Case 2: Cable design 2
In this practice you will learn:
 How to get the section curve
 How to edit the 3D curve such as offset, fillet, etc.
 How to pattern the geometry
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4.2.1 Create a cylinder shape according to the following dimensions.
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4.2.2 Create the section line by Inter-X curve in wireframe.
Result:
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4.2.3 Offset the section profile in one side as follows.
Result:
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4.2.4 Connect the offset curve by extending them to corner.
Result:
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Repeat the way to finish other corners.
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4.2.5 Pattern it with the number of 2 as shown as the picture below.
Create a new line as follows:
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And then fillet some corners.
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The last result should be as follows:
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Delete the unnecessary curve to get the following result:
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4.2.6 Pattern the above curves by circular mode:
Pattern center is the original point
Pattern number: 50 Pattern Angle: 7.2
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4.2.7 Erase some unnecessary curves.
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4.2.8 Add 2 lines at both sides as follows (Length determined by you).
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4.2.9 Hide the cylinder firstly and then Sweep rod along these curves as follows.
Swept result:
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Then go to the Free Form Tab and choose the Sew command to sew all if the open geometry into closed shape as
follows.
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After un-blanking all of the shape you should get a result as follows:
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4.3 Case 3: Spring design
 How to create 3D Spiral helical curve in different place
 How to create 3D polyline
 Concatenate the separated curves
 Apply material for shapes
Process:
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4.3.1 Create the first Spiral helical curve.
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4.3.2 In the top position of the created spiral helical curve, create another Spiral helical curve with different pitch
distances.
4.3.3 Create line and Arc based on it.
Create polylines by offsetting reference point as follows.
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Then you can use the same way to create other points to finish a polyline as follows.
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Create arc.
Erase a line as follows.
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4.3.4 Blend the sharp corner.
Result:
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4.3.5 Copy it.
In order to get a more clear view about the Spring‘s wireframe, we can go to turn off the triad and global datum as
follows.
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4.3.6 Concatenate all of the separated curves.
Test: Please check what kind of result you will get at last if you don’t concatenate the separated curves.
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4.3.7 Sweep Rod based on it.
Result looks as follows:
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4.3.8 Add material to it: Visualize --Texture
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4.4 Case 4: Spoon design
 How to insert picture into Sketch and draw the profile based on the picture
 How to align picture in different plane
 Combine curves in different plane
 How to create surface based on the wireframe
 How to check the quality of surface’s connection
In this case, we need to use the surface command to finish it, so at first, it is necessary to have an idea about the
Surface tools as follows.
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Next let’s follow the following steps to finish this case.
4.4.1 Create a sketch on XY plane and then insert a picture from the built-in training folder as follows.
Locate the picture with a suitable size as follows.
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4.4.2 Afterwards create a line near the spoon’s center position on this picture as follows.
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4.4.3 Move the picture and the line to the 0 point as follows.
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4.4.4 Draw profile based on this picture by Point curve as follows:
After finishing drawing the spline, don’t close the point curve command.Next we can keep on adding constraint to the
start point and end point as follows.
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After finishing these steps confirm, exit the sketch.
Next we are going to create another sketch for the Front profile of the spoon as follows.
4.4.5 Create a sketch on XZ plane again, and then project the previous sketch into this sketch as reference.
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4.4.6 Insert the picture of front view of spoon as follows.
4.4.7 Afterwards you have to limit the front view according to the first sketch’s(reference line’s) size, follow the
following steps to finish it.
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Afterwards display the reference line by un-blanking all and then create another vertical line as follows.
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4.4.8 Draw profile based on the front view as follows.
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After exiting the sketch, you can get the following result:
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4.4.9 Combine curves into 1 3D curve as follows.
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4.4.10 Insert some datum planes as follows.
Keep on inserting other 6 planes as follows.
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And then hide the first sketch as follows.
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4.4.11 Afterinserting these planes, create the section profile in each plane.
Create a sketch on the plane 1, and then create 2 reference point as follows.
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Create the section profile based on these 2 reference points.
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Confirm it and exit the sketch. Then you can get the following result:
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Keep on creating other section profile on other planes in the same way.
◆ Note: This is just a half of the spoon, so please make sure each section profile’s start point (Point at
bottom) should be constrained to be tangent with X axis.
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4.4.12 Extrude a surface as reference surface as follows.
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4.4.13 Hide the sketch 2.
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4.4.14 Create surface for the half of spoon as follows.
Confirm it and then you can get the following result:
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Then reverse the direction of it as follows.
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4.4.15 Hide the reference surface and curves, sketch and datum planes, and then go to mirror another half of it.
Result:
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4.4.16 Analyze the surface’s quality at the connection position.
From the analysis result you can find the surface is connected very well.In this condition, we can call the surface
reach the G2 connection.
4.4.17 Shell the surface to add thickness.
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So far you have finished the Spoon.
Congratulation, you completed this chapter!
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Chapter 05
5. Assembly Design
 How to insert component into assembly file
 How to add constraint to component
 How to copy the same component
 How to Dynamically simulate the motion of constrained component
 How to manage component and constraint
 How to create Explosive view
 How to create BOM in 2D sheet for Assembly file

Assembly Design Chapter 5
5.1 Insert components
5.1.1 Create a new file and name it as Toggle.
5.1.2 Afterwards you will get the Part interface and then go to Assembly Tab. Following is a general idea about the
assembly Tools.
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5.1.3 Pick Multiple Insert command under the Assembly tap to find the existing toggle_clamp file under the
installing path as this.
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5.1.4 Choose the part to insert.
5.1.5 After confirming, you can insert all of the picked components at one step as follows.
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5.2 Fix the left side frame
After you anchor the left side frame, go to the assembly manager and then you can see the Left size frame will show
Fixed as follows.
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5.3 Add constraint

5.3.1 Since all of the components are inserted at the same position, it is not easy to add the constraint to them at
correct position. Therefore let’s first move them to a suitable position as follows.
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5.3.2 Add constraint
Add a concentric constraint to the Clamp arm and the left side frame as follows.
After you choose 2 entities, ZW3D will animate the align process and then you can get the following result.
◆ Note: Don’t confirm or exist the command at this moment, since ZW3D allows you to keep on going.
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Keep on clicking on the side face of Clamp arm and the left side of frame.Then you can continue to add a face to
face coincident constraint as follows.
You will find after picking the Opposite option.The Clamp arm will move to align the left side frame’s side face.
◆ Note: Don’t close or say ok to this command since you can keep on going.
Add the same constraint to the Handle.
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Result:
Keep on adding face to face coincident constraint by clicking the side of faces of their continually as follows.
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After you add the constraint it will be like the following result:
◆ Note: So far you are still using the same align command.Pay attention to your mouse in case
confirm it. Next we will keep on adding constraint to other components based on this command.
Constrain the link to the arm and Handle as follows.
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Result:
Keep on going.
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Result:
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◆ Note: When we reach this step, let’s confirm the align command, since next we need to copy a
more link for the opposite side.
5.4 Copy link by moving
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5.5 Align the copied link
5.5.1 Align a hole to handle.
5.5.2 Align another hole to Clamp arm.
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5.5.3 Align face to face.
Result:
And then let’s keep on adding constraint to the right side frame as follow.
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5.5.4 Align the right side frame to handle.
5.5.5 Align the right side frame to clamp arm.
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5.5.6 Align face to face.
Result:
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5.6 Check the constraint status
5.7 Drag the handle
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Move the handle to this position.
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5.8 Check the interference
5.9 Correct the position of handleas follows:
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5.10 Create a 2D sheet based on this assembly as follows.
5.9.2 After entering into 2D sheet level, first create 3 views as follows.
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5.9.3 Create an isometric view as follows.
5.9.4 Add the length, width, height for the assembly file.
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5.9.5 Create BOM for this assembly file.
Final result:
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5.10 Create an exploded view
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5.10.1 The exploded view will ask you to add steps to show the exploded process as follows.
5.10.2 And then keep on moving other component in the same method to finish adding 5 steps for this exploded
view.
◆ Note: During adding steps to create an exploded view, the constraints will not work as normally
temporarily.
5.10.3 After finishing these 5 steps, go to the assembly manager again and then you can find a configure for exploded
view will be added as follows.
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1. Sketch Design ........................................................................................................................................................................ 1

In thisChapter you will learn

 How to use the drawing tool

 How to add constraint

 How to edit sketch

 How to analyze the sketch’s constraint status

1.1 Create a new sketch

In Part level create sketch as follows.

1.1.4 Document aware Tool bar:

1.2 Draw sketch:

1.2.1 Create a datum circle at original point (0,0) as follows.

1.2.3 Create datum lines.

1.2.4 Add angle dimension to them as follows.

1.2.6 Create 2 datum points as follows.

Next let’s go to create sketch based on these datum geometries.

1.2.10 Trim : Power trim + One touch Trim.

Trim again by One Touch Trim command as follows:

1.2.11 Create 2 vertical lines as follows.

1.2.12 Dimension the line in the left side as follows.

Create slot as follows

Repeat to finish all of the dimensions as follows.

And add dimension the offset distance as follows.

1.4 Add constraint

1.4.2 After confirming,continue to add the Point to line constraint as follows.

1.4.3 Add more constraint to the under defined geometry:

Excise: please finish attached sketch excise.

In this chapter you will learn

 How to use Shape commands like Block, Extrude, Revolve etc.

2.1 Pipe connector

First let’s take a look at the CAD design interface as follows.

Then let’s go to take a look at the Shape tools as follows.

Next let’s go to create the shape.

2.1.1 Create a block as follows.

Create the reference line as follows.

Create the sketch and constrain it.

Mirror about the center line as follow.

Constrain the end point of the mirrored line as

Connect the end point of the arc by line as follows.

2.1.7 Extrude the 3rd sketch as follows.

Add draft angle to the side face of the base as follows.

Keep on adding draft angle as follows.

2.1.9 Add fillet to the edges as follows.

Add fillet to these edges as follows.

Fillet on edges with radius of 5(R5).

Fillet the top edge.

2.1.10 Create hole feature.

Hole on the side face.

Counter-Bore hole on bottom:

i) Create a sketch point on XY plane for hole’s location.

2.1.11 Mirror it as follows.

Mirror about YZ plane.

Mirror about XZ plane.

Afterwards you can get the following result:

2.1.13 Revolve 2 shapes for cutting the inner pockets as follows.

Create 2 sketches in XY plane as follows.

Another sketch is as follows:

Revolve the first sketch.

Revolve another one.